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Collaborative Investor Engagement with Policymakers: Changing the Rules of the Game?

Purpose – Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on a multiplecase study design, this study aims to analyze what drives institutional investors to engage with government entities and what challengesthey find in the process.Design/methodology/approach – The authors relied on document analysis and conducted 12 semistructured interviews with representatives from asset owners, assetmanagers, investor ...

What is the Difference between Fossil Fuel Embargo and Price Shocks?

In this paper, we model a fossil fuel embargo as a temporary quantity constraint on fossil fuel imports and wecompare the impact with the effect of a fossil fuel price shock. We show that while both shocks have similar responses of output and inflation, they differ with respect to the reaction of other macroeconomic components,such as consumption, exports and the trade balance. In particular, an embargo ...

15 Euro Mindestlohn? weg mit den ideologischen Scheuklappen!

„Die Geldpolitik darf nicht mit zusätzlichen wirtschaftspolitischen Aufgaben überfrachtet werden“

Sara Dietz und Kerstin Bernoth haben gemeinsam mit weiteren Autoren eine Studie zu den Erfolgen des Euro in seinen ersten 25 Jahren durchgeführt. Im Redaktionsgespräch betonen sie, dass sie nicht lange nach Erfolgen suchen mussten. Demnach sei der Euro die zweitwichtigste Währung der Welt. Eine weitere Erweiterung der Währungsunion erachten sie nur als sinnvoll, wenn wirtschaftlich starke und finanziell ...

Labour Supply and Survivor Insurance in the Netherlands

This paper investigates the effects of survivor benefits (SB) on the labour supply of widows. Using richadministrative data on the Dutch population and a reform that considerably restricted eligibility to SB, weidentify the causal effect of SB on labour supply. Using a regression discontinuity design strategy based onthe cohort-based implementation of the reform, we show that labour income after spousal ...

Is There an Information Channel of Monetary Policy?

Exploiting the heteroscedasticity of the changes in short-term and long-term interest rates and exchange rates around the FOMC announcement, we identify three structural monetary policy shocks. We eliminate the predictable part of the shocks and study their effects on financial variables and macro variables. The first shock resembles a conventional monetary policy shock, and the second resembles an ...

Crowding of International Mutual Funds

We study the relationship between crowding and performance in the active mutual fund industry. Using the equity holdings overlap of 17,364 global funds, we find that funds that crowd into the same stocks underperform passive benchmark funds by 1.4% per year. The negative returns to crowding can at least in part be explained by excess demand for liquidity and the associated discount for holding liquid ...

Decline in Job Satisfaction and How it Relates to Investment Decisions of the Self-Employed

Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to investment ...

Gehälter von Frauen und Männern: Wie sich die Unterschiede erklären

Jahr für Jahr wird am 6. März der Equal Pay Day gemeldet. Bis zu diesem Tag im Jahr haben Frauen symbolisch gratis gearbeitet, vergleicht man ihre durchschnittlichen Gehälter mit denen von Männern. Den Unterschied zwischen dem, was Männer und Frauen  verdienen, bezeichnet man als Gender Pay Gap. In Berlin haben 2023 Frauen elf Prozent weniger verdient als Männer, in Brandenburg vier Prozent. Dieser ...

Experimental Evidence on Panel Conditioning Effects when Increasing the Surveying Frequency in a Probability-Based Online Panel

We investigate panel conditioning effects in a long-running probability-based online panel of the general population through a large-scale experiment conducted in 2020. Our experiment was specifically designed to study the effect of intensifying the surveying frequency for the treatment group (N = 5,598 panel members) during a 16-week corona study while keeping the control group (N = 799 panel members) ...